oh yeah, Michele, when I mentioned hdspmixer, here's the guy :) He and a couple of other folk are the badasses that helped me get mine running too, although, what's funny is I don't think we officially ever fixed the problem I was having *LAUGH* it just works now (magic touch?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "thomas charbonnel" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michele Spinolo" <michele.spinolo@xxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] DiGi9652 or HDSP9652 ? > Michele Spinolo wrote : > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm going to buy one of these cards, and I was wondering what about the > > differences from one to each other and concernig ALSA's support. > > By ALSA's website seems they are completly supported, but I would like to > > have some users' confimations. > > > > On RME website I focused this words: > > > > HDSP 9652 is the long-awaited successor of the well-known PCI card Project > > Hammerfall (DIGI9652). Like the original Hammerfall, HDSP 9652 offers 3 x > > ADAT optical I/O, ADAT-Sync In, SPDIF I/O and word clock I/O. On top, there > > are 2 MIDI I/Os and TotalMix, a DSP-based real-time mixer/router. > > > > apart from MIDI I/Os which I do not care about, I didn't understand what > > TotalMix will do on HDSP9652 and under Linux. > > > > Thanks in advance to anyone who will help! > > Michele > > > > Hi Michele, > > The hardware mixer that comes with the HDSP 9652 is a very flexible way > of controlling the way audio signals are routed inside the card. > Basically you can route any incoming signal or software playback channel > to any physical output with a gain ranging from -oo dB to +6 dB. This is > done in hardware, so it doesn't impact the cpu load in any way, and is > very low latency (2 samples). The card also does hardware peak and RMS > calculation on all channels. Totalmix is the frontend provided by RME to > control this hardware mixer and display the meters. I wrote a linux > clone of this application, hdspmixer, that's shipped with the alsa-tools > package. > > Thomas > >
